Three cheers for our friends and clients of
Team Garmin-Slipstream! Though they missed a spot on the podium in the
Tour de France on Sunday, the Boulder-based professional cycling team boasted an impressive feat: two riders in the top 10. Bradley Wiggins was fourth overall - just 1 minute, 23 seconds behind third-place-finisher Lance Armstrong. And Christian Vande Velde finished eighth overall - just two months after cracking three vertebrae in a crash.
And the next time you talk to
Nico or Kelly or
Evan, be sure to ask them about all the cool behind-the-scenes technology work we did for both the
versus.com website and the
slipstreamsports.com website during the tour. I kept nagging Nico to write a blog about what he and the other programmers were doing, but he was simply too busy doing real work to find time to blog. In short, we helped create versus.com's Race Tracker that provided Live Tour de France coverage including live GPS tracking, real-time play-by-play, interactive maps and profiles, and live broadband-quality video.